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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source

The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty, Laurence Romani, Zsuzsanna Arendas, Marta Pachocka   +3 more
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Architecture as the practice of accountability: extractivism, externalities and alternatives [PDF]

This paper explores architecture's relations with extractivism, drawing on both recent scholarship and practical examples to seek new modes of action which disentangle those relations and move towards accountability.
Powis, A.
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
wiley   +1 more source

Extractivism and Citizenship

, 2019
This chapter summarizes the main claims of the heterogeneous concept of extractivism,  pointing out its ambiguities and polysemic nature. Extractivism has been used to refer to different historical periods, has been assigned quite diverse scopes and used
Grigera, Juan Francisco
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Conservation narratives in Peru: envisioning biodiversity in sustainable development

Ecology and Society, 2016
In the mega-diverse country Peru, a resource intensive development model collides with the interest of conserving biodiversity. Peruvian biodiversity experts have developed different lines of argumentation as to how to integrate conservation into the ...
Yves M. Zinngrebe
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Carbon Populism and Representative Politics: On Why Fossil Fuel Firms Speaking for ‘The People’ Is a Bad Idea

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing recognition that countries around the world must transition to a low‐carbon economy, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. One way that decarbonization has been obstructed, we argue, is by fossil fuel firms intentionally conflating their agenda with ‘the people’, evoking notions of national identity, security and ...
Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Vanessa Bowden, Peter Fleming   +3 more
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)Turning to Black feminist consciousness: Deconstructing the politics of reproductive racism in Britain

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
wiley   +1 more source

Alternativas al modelo extractivista: El territorio en re‑existencia del Chocó Andino

L'Ordinaire des Amériques
The extractivist model is imposed in Ecuador, as in Latin America, under pressure from the Washington Consensus, the Commodities Consensus, the Beijing Consensus and the decarbonization consensus.
Álvaro Sanchez Roble
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